<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>House of Cards</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spade: <br>A city of metallic urgency<br>Come, rape the society<br>Your blaring highways<br>Your drifting lightshows<br>I chocked on a shabby musing<br>Beneath the miasma of your gaiety<br>Swooning over codes and keys<br>Your filthy people don't care<br>Dispensing prisms into drivels<br>And you seek bereavement just to unravel<br>What the politics stymied<br>Oh, dour gloating can stifle<br>And turn your people to scornful nihilists.<br> <br>Clover: <br>A country overweening of poverty<br>Preyed by ravenous double-standards<br>I gorge in neon-signs and hazards<br>Incorporeal desires and volition<br>Diverged a quavering hunger<br>A hunger sated by blind faith<br>A knot in your stomach; a monopoly of divinity<br>Pilgrimages sulk into nonchalance<br>Devotions coiled into an echolalia<br>In your banquet, dripped blood and tears<br>Tethered in a girth<br>Lapsing mortality by birth<br>Pray tell, what do I have to swallow? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heart: <br>A planet of sardonic frowns<br>Your society left no vacancy<br>For ideals, dreams, and innuendos<br>Chauvinism had their sallow eyes too<br>Hulking upon my vision<br>I fought to envision, I cried irate<br>I will ferment you in a jar<br>Bloating the cold and hungry cellars<br>With your weak representations and trampling constitutions<br>Far East is West but parceled with philosophical dialect<br>Ah, scathing comics; a slapstick<br>Flimsy faith and obsequious belief<br>Fall for me, they call me idiocy.<br> <br>Diamond: <br>In a looming house of cards; <br>A spade is for burying<br>A clover with four leaves<br>A heart, non-existent, pawned for<br>A diamond, for diamonds are forever.<br>On your anteroom, by your elbow<br>I will exhume a poor gambler<br>And wage for your liberty, or not<br>I will find mine in this fringeless sea<br>Whilst you drown in a waterspout<br>Maimed by the treason misconstrued<br>Damn reason! Curse amity! <br>Civilization shall fumble beautifully like a house of cards.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471306" data-title="House of Cards de Norman Santos" data-description="Spade: A city of metallic urgency Come, rape the society Your blaring highways Your drifting lightshows I chocked on a shabby musing Beneath the miasma of your gaiety Swooning over codes and keys Your filthy people don't care Dispensing prisms in..."></div> </div> </div>

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